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  1. 3 days ago · Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of ...

  2. 4 hours ago · The Spanish Armada and English ships in August 1588, (unknown, 16th-century, English School) Foreign affairs. In foreign policy, Elizabeth played against each other the major powers France and Spain, as well as the papacy and Scotland. These were all Catholic and each wanted to end Protestantism in England.

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    2 days ago · e. Ashoka ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕoːkɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c.304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c.268 to 232 BCE. His empire covered the largest part of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from present-day Afghanistan in the west to present-day ...

  5. 3 days ago · George III (born June 4 [May 24, Old Style], 1738, London—died January 29, 1820, Windsor Castle, near London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760–1820) and elector (1760–1814) and then king (1814–20) of Hanover, during a period when Britain won an empire in the Seven Years’ War but lost its American colonies and then ...

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  6. 3 days ago · The text dates back to the third or fourth century, making it the oldest recorded use of the symbol. The research was commissioned by Bodleian Libraries, where the manuscript has been held since 1902. The text was found to contain hundreds of zeroes, and the landmark finding puts the birth of ‘zero’ or ‘nought’ as it is also known, at ...

  7. 3 days ago · Before the early third century BCE, what is now known as China was nothing but a number of warring states. In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang (sometimes written Qin Shihuang or Qin Shihuangdi), king of Qin (from which the name of the country derives), united China and became the first emperor of the new, united country.

  8. 5 days ago · George III: An Essay in Monarchy. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, ISBN: 9780333919629; 244pp.; Price: £45.00. George III, as G. M. Ditchfield readily acknowledges in his authorial preface, has hardly been ignored by historians. Biographical studies by John Brooke and Stanley Ayling appeared in 1972, and another by Christopher Hibbert in 1998.

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